Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 104, Decatur, Adams County, 2 May 1957 — Page 1

Vol. UV. No. 104.

TOP ADAMS CENTRAL SCHOLARS

Bl Barbara Fleshier*

U. S. Fleet In Mid-East Boon To Anti-Reds Encourages Foes Os Syrian Communists To Overcome Group By WALTER LOGAN United Press Staff Correspondent Israeli sources said today in Jerusalem that presence of the U.S. 6th Fleet in the Middle East will encourage moderate elements in Syria in their struggle to overcome the pro-Communist groups now controlling the country. Reports received in Jerusalem said Syria already is withdrawing its 3.000 or more troops from Jordan, chiefly because of the strong moral support the United States gave King Hussein by sending the fleet to the eastern Mediterranean. Israeli foreign ministry sources said events during the next two weeks may show the U.S. Fleet move was intended not only to give encouragement to Hussein but also to the Inti-Communist elements in Syria who would like to halt that country’s swing toward the left. Syria Plans Elections Syria holds important parliamentary by-elections May 4 which may give an indication of the fu-ture-trend in that country. In the meantime news filtering into Jerusalem said the Syrian army was pulling back across the border. A United Press Washington dispatch Wednesday predicting a Syrian troop withdrawal said American officials would interpret such a move as a sign Syria’s dependence on the Soviet Union was lessening. The presence of the 6th Fleet somewhere off the coast of Lebanon also was having important repercussions in Cairo. There was no official Egyptian reaction, but Egyptian political circles said the move had "fired a fatal blow” for the Eisenhower Doctrine in the Middle East. All Quiet In Jortym In Jordan itself the three-day feast of Id El Fitr, bringing an end to the Moslem holy month of Ramadan, brought calm. Even the Bedouin guards in front of the U.S. Embassy were removed as tension died out. A Cairo dispatch reported that the American flag ships Flying Trader and Exchange would arrive at opposite ends of the Suet Canal Friday to move through the canal —the second and third American flag ships to use th® waterway since it was opened. —Jr- *■ **■«• . - Bernard Brake Dies Wednesday Evening Funeral Services Saturday Morning Bernard Brake, 67, a former - resident of Decatur, died Wednesday night at his home, 2024 Vine street, Cincinnati. 0., after an illness of several years of complications. He was born in Adams county, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Herman Brake, and spent a large part of his life in this city. Mr. Brake was a member of St. Mary's Catholic church at Cincinnati. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Mary Asmussen of Ager, S. £>., and two sisters, Mrs. Mina Brown of Chicago, and Mrs. Louise Tekulve of Cincinnati. Two brothers and one sister preceded him in death. Funeral services will be conducted at 9 a. m. Saturday at St. Mary’s Catholic church in this city, the Very Rev. Msgr. J. J. Seimetz officiating. Burial will be in the Catholic cemetery. Friends may call at the Gillig & Doan funeral home after 2 p. m. Friday until time of the services.

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. 4fll Carol Kaehr

42 Will Graduate At Adams Central Annual Graduation Exercises May 14 Forty-two members of the senior class of the Adams Central high school will receive diplomas at the annual commencement exercises, which will be held Tuesday evening, May 14, at the Adams Central gymnasium-auditor-ium. Herman Frantz, high school principal, also announced that the baccalaureate exercises will be held at the school Sunday evening, May 12. Miss Barbara Fiechter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Fiechter. Decatur route 4, will serve as class valedictorian, for ranking tops in scholarship among the 42 graduates. Miss Carol Kaehr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Kaehr, also of Decatur route 4, as second in the class, will be the salutatorian. Dr. A. Blair Helman, president of Manchester College at North Manchester, will deliver the commencement address, and the Rev. Willis Gierhart, pastor of the Monroe Methodist church, will deliver the baccalaureate sermon. The list of graduates follows: Donald Bailey, James Baumgartner, Wayne Byerly, Ronald Corson, Doris Cauble, Mary Lou Ehrsam,; Arleen Freels, Nancy Frank, Barbara Fiechter, Ludmila Gorb, Ronald Gerber, Emanuel Gerber, Edith Hirschy, Charles Heare, Carol Jane Heller, Shirley Hirschy, Joyce Irwin, Carol Kaehr, Carole Kershner, Mike Lehman, Cynthia Lehman. Philip Moser, Linda McKean, Marjorie Nussbaum, Leslie Ploughe, Karen Reed, Marcus Ripley, Gretchen Schnepp, Linda Schug, Flossie Jean Schwartz, Terry Shoaf, Phyllis Singleton, David Smith, Marjorie Sprunger, Virginia Steffen, James Steiner, Betty Lou Steury, Linda Stultz. Jane Uhrick, Bob Wechter, Sonja Yoder, Conne Roe. 32 Persons Killed In British Crash Three Survivors In Critical Condition BLACKBUSHE, England (UP)The three survivors of a plane crash that killed 32 persons here Wednesday night were listed in critical condition today. A chartered Viking airliner loaded with British servicemen for the Middle East crashed and burned when one engine failed shortly after it took off for Tripoli, Libya. Four servicemen were thrown clear of the blazing wreck but one died later. The 32 victims included a serviceman’s wife and her two children and the plane's stewardess. The rest were men. A U.S. plane belonging to the 200th Fleet Aircraft Service Squadron based at this military airfield was over the field and reported the crash when the plane went down two miles from the runway. Airman Franklin P. Keyser of Boswell, Pa., said, “We saw it take off and as we circled the field waiting for it to clear we saw it dive into the ground and explode. U.S. Navy men led by Lt. Curtis Churston of Atlanta reached the wreck with a firetruck almost simultaneously with the airport firefighters. Boatswain’s Mate Charles J. Lee of Brooklyn. Technician Chick Chignola of Quincy, Mass., 1 O. G. Richardson of Levermore, Calif., and Seaman Ron Falinger of Dearborn, Mich., helped extinguish the blaze and remove the bodies. BULLETIN INDIANAPOLIS (W — T h e Indiana Supreme Court ruled today that pinball machines which award free games that an not recorded on the mar chine are legal.

U. S. Pledges To Maintain NATO Force KF ‘ * 5 Alliance Assured By Eisenhower Os Maintaining Force BONN, Germany (UP) — President Eisenhower assured the North Atlantic alliance today that the United States will maintain its forces at their present, strength despite Britain’s planned defense cuts. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles conveyed this message from the President to the first session of the 15-nation NATO Council, made up of the foreign ministers of the countries in the alliance. He said the President gave it to him when they talked just before Dulles took off for Germany. The* American view was prompted by a feeling that the British cuts might set off a chain reaction of reductions among the other NATO nations. < Dulles said the President had instructed him to assure the council that the United States contemplate no change in the disposition of its forces from what was announced at the last council session in Paris last December. — The three-day council meeting began with a brief opening public ceremony followed by the first of five working sessions in the conference room of the West German Foreign Office. The meetings were highlighted by these statements: —West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer told Soviet Russia that world peace lies in Russia’s hands alone and warned that a modern atomic war would bring “an apocalyptic fate” upon all mankind, including the Soviet bloc itself. —Dulles announced that the U.S. will rifoinUin its forces intact He warned that there could be no general cutback of NATO’s strength until the Soviets accept an overall system of controlled disarmament. -British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd said the West is right to base its own defense policy on nuclear deterrents. He said the Soviets “respect this.” NATO officials warned in reports prepa ed for the council today that increasing Soviet military strength (Ceatlßae® m Paa® Five) House Committee Okays School Bill Tentative Approval For Building Plan WASHINGTON (W — The House Education and Labor Committee today tentatively approved a fiveyear two-billion-dollar school construction program. The action was taken as the committee completed its second day of closed-door work on the bill, a compromise reached by Eisenhower Republicans and liberal Democrats. President Eisenhower had asked for a four-year $1,300,000,000 program. The Democrats had proposed a six-year $3,600,000,000 program. Chairman Graham A. Barden (D-N.C.) announced after today’s secret session that his committee had approved the size of the program—five years at 400 million dollars a year. The committee action is subject to reconsideration when the members vote on filial approval of the entire program. Also tentatively approved was a complicated system under which the federal money would be divided among the. 48 states. Half of the yearly money—or 200 million dollars —would be allocated to the states on the basis of their school populations. The other half would be allocated according to a formula relating the number of students to the state's income. Selective Service Sends Contingent Fourteen Adams county young men were sent to Indianapolis this morning, by the local selective service board, four of them for active induction into the nation’s armed forces, and 10 for physical examinations. Those to be Inducted are Harry John Moser, Roger LaVerne Strahm, Donald Bultemeier and Charles Duane Lehman, the latter two enlistees in the Navy. Those taking ‘examinations are Ronald Eugene Secaur, Donald Max Roe, Donald Carl Reinking, Richard Duane Duff, Raymond Lee Lichtenberger, Thurman Dwight Sudduth, Richard Frederick Callow, Thpmas / Samuel Rise, Robert Joseph Meyer and Paul Glen Brown.

Decatur, Indiana, Thursday, May 2, 1957.

Senate Committee To Conduct Hearings On Indiana Road Scandal

Benson Urges r -• Revisions In ? Farm Measures Asks Congress Pass Legislation; Offers No New Program WASHINGTON (UP)-Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson said j today that present production con- ( trol and price support laws for farm products are obsolete and “are not working." He said it is the “responsibility . of Congress” to do something , about it. While pointing out failures of , present law, Benson did not come forward with a new farm program of his own. But he offered to coun- ' sei with Congress in providing re- ' medial legislation. His comments were contained in a 2,200-word letter to Chairman Allen J. Ellender (D-La.) of the Senate Agriculture Committee. The letter was supplemented by a 3,000 - word department statement. The secretary said the soil bank and the surplus disposal programs are the “two biggest and most expensive operations in the history of agriculture.” , .-* • .■i-w*?' Lists Total Costs < ■ He said present price-support levels—9o to 75 per cent of parity —’’have aggravated farmers’ marketing problems” and indicated that tiie present 75 per cent price support floor should be junked. The principle of flexible price supports—in the 90 to 75 range—is the backbone of the Bensonsponsored farm law adopted in 1954. The cost of farm programs from fiscal 1932 through fiscal 1956 totaled $11,753,700,000, Benson said. He said this "heavy” expenditure has made “little or no contribution to the problem of low-income farmers, in whose name farm programs are frequently defended.” A breakdown showed these total costs: For the basic commodities. of corn, cotton, peanuts, rice, tobac-' co, and wheat, $6,453,500,000. For the designated non-basic commodities of dairy products, potatoes, and wool, $2,295,400,000 For remaining non-basic commodities including eggs, flaxseed, sugar, honey, and tung nuts, $2,374,600.000. For unallocable costs, $630,200,000. Present Formula Obsolete Benson said cost for fiscal 1956 alone were $1,936,100,000. This included $820,800,000 for basic crops, <C»atiaved Pase Pive)

American Red Cross In Financial Difficulties

By LOUIS CASSELSUnited Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON (UP) — Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther said today the American Red Cross is in “very serious financial trouble” and may have to curtail its service to suffering humanity. The former NATO European commander who became president of the Red Cross early this year, told the United Press' he has ordered the dismissal of 300 paid employes and a, cut of $2,250,000 in the administrative budget of the national organization. Unless the American people contribute more liberally to the Red Cross than they have so far this year, he said, he will be forced to make further budget cuts which will “directly affect” such traditional programs as disaster relief and aid to servicemen; Gruenther revealed in a two-hour exclusive interview that he has given up hope of reaching the 95 million dollars goal which the Red Cross set for its 1957 fund-raising drive. Although the dfive has been in progress for two months instead of the customary one, contributions to date total only 78 million dollars. Red Cross chapters have been urged to ‘keep trying” through May, but Gruenther conceded that “We'll be lucky to get up to 85 million dollars."

further Increases Seen In Food Costs Consumer Demand To Continue As Strong WASHINGTON (UP) — The Agriculture Department today had bad news for consumers: Food prices for the next few months will continue to .be “somewhat higher” than a year ago. Consumer demand for food during the spring and early summer will continue strong, supported by high employment and income, the department said in its publication, “The National Food Situation.” Supplies of most major foods in the next few months are expected to continue close to the high level of a year ago. The department said livestock products will be plentiful through midsummer. Meats will be only a little less plentiful than a year eerier, mostly because of a smaller supply of pork. Lard also will be in srnaler suppy. The report said there will be at least as many eggs as in the spring and early summer of 1956; more poultry meat, particularly turkey, and more milk than in 1956. With average weather during the next few moifths, the harvest of food crops again will be large, the department said. Supplies of fresh fruits and vegetables normally increase toward midsummer. Supplies of both processed fruits and vegetables are expected to continue at least as large as a year earlier because of the large stocks still on hand from the record high 1956 packs. Production of canned vegetables may be somewhat lower this year than last, and canned fruits may be down slightly. It said fats and oils will continue in as large supply this summe as last, and cereal food products will remain plentiful even though stocks of wheat and rice will be lower than last year’s record high level. Food exports have been heavy thus far in 1957, but are expected to slacken a bit during the second half. Food shipments abroad will continue to be comprised of those items in especially heavy supply. The Bureau of Labor Statistics said retail food prices have been relatively stable since last August, ave aging "moderately higher” than a year earlier. During the first quarter of 1957, the food price index was 4 per cent higher than at the same time last year, but below the levels of the winters of 1953 and 1954. Eggs were the only major commodity for which prices were lowe than in the winter of 1956. Increases were sharpest for meats, < Coati Pace Firol

Wrong Idea of It Failure of this year’s drive to reach its goal is particularly serious, he said, because the disaster reserve fund which pulled the Red Cross through past years is now exhausted. Outlays for disaster relief have been running far above normal for several years in a roiy, he said. The past fiscal year, with heavy floods in New England and the West Coast, “really beat our brains out.” Gruenther attributes Red Cross fund-raising difficulties, in part; to the fact that "competition for philanthropic dollars is vastly greater today than it used to be.” But three months of intensive first-hand investigation, including personal visits to Red Cross offices and chapters across the country, have convinced him that the biggest problem is that “people just don't know what the Red Cross is, and what it does.” “I am appalled by the misconceptions of the Red Cross which I have encountered,” he said. One which particularly trdubles the general is the belief 'that the Red • Cross is a swollen “bureaucracy” with hordes of professional do-gooders on its payroll. Long Term Help Gruenther said £bout 10 per cent of each dollar contributed to the < Coati Bae® •« Faaa Fivo)

Atomic War To Destroy Both U. S., Russia Mutual Destruction Os Nations Warned By Admiral Burke WASHINGTON (UP)-The United States and Russia would destroy each other in an atomic war/ Adm. Arleigh A. Burke, chief of naval operations, has warned. The United States i?ow has the nuclear weapons for “complete destruction” of Russia and the Soviet Union either now has or will soon have the “capability of doing toe same thing to us,” Burke said. With “mutual destruction" in prospect from nuclear war, Burke said “there is apt to be some sort of stalemate where neither side dares to start a war because it will result in destroying the whole northern hemisphere.” Gen. Nathan F. Twining, soon to become chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, warned that this situation increases the danger of ‘limited war" because “the Soviets have acquired a greater capability to wage general war and can, therefore, undertake limited aggression with less fear, of total retaliation." ~~ The comments by Burke and Twining, outgoing Air Force chief of staff, were contained in a heavily censored 1331-page transcript of testimony by defense officials on President Eisenhower’s $38,500,000,000 defense budget for the new fiscal year. A House appropriations subcommittee heard the testimony behind closed doors recently and made public the transcript today. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson said he believes the Communist threat has reached its peak. But he warned that Russia still is a world menace and the United States will have -to maintain its armed might for years to come. Mrs. Effie Bowers Dies Last Evening " Funeral Services Saturday Afternoon Mrs. Effie E. Bowers, 76, a resident of Decatur for the past six years, died suddenly at 8:20 p.m. Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Jessie Royce, 827 North Fifth street, where she has made her home. She had been ill for five years. A native of Van Wert county, 0., she was the daughter of John and Ida Ifcrris Hawk and was born Oct. 30,1880. She was married Feb. 20, 1898, to Fremond Bowers, who died March 27, 1951. She was a resident of Harrison township in Van Wert county until moving here, and was a member of the Methodist church. Only close survivor is a sister, Mrs. Jesse Case of Decatur. One brother and three sisters preceded her in death. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Zwick funeral home, with the Rev. Seth Painter officiating. Burial will be in the Decatur cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 2 p.m. Friday. Senator McCarthy Is Still Seriously 111 WASHINGTON (W — Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.) suffering from hepatitis, a liver ailment, remained in serious condition today at Bethesda Naval Medical Center. The hospital’s morning report on McCarthy said there had been a “little improvement” during the past 24 hours but that his condition “remains serious.” The report also said McCarthy’s temperature was “elevated” again today. ' , > 14 Pages

— Richards Ordered To Wind Up Mission Eisenhower Orders Richards To Return WASHINGTON (IP) — President Eisenhower has ordered Ambassador James P. Richards to wind up his special mission to the Middle East and return to Washington as soon as feasible, the State Department announced today. Department press officer Lincoln White said the President wants Richards on hand to confer with him on preparation of new foreign aid legislation. White said Richards expects to arrive in Washington next Wednesday in time to attend a bipartisan meeting of congressional leaders at the White House on the aid program the following day. The President’s decision to call Richards home means the former South Carolina Democratic congressman will not visit Egypt, Syria or Jordan on his mission of explaining the Eisenhower Doctrine to Middle East nations. So far Richards has visited 12 countries and he plans to visit Israel, Tunisia and Morocco before returning to Washington. White said discussions with any ■ Middle East nation indicating an interest in talking about the Eis- ’ enhower Doctrine “will be carried I nut through normal diplomatic I channels." ■ - r ■. f The President’s decision means . Richards will not go to Bonn, Gert many, to confer with Secretary of ; State John Foster Dulles, who is . now attending the North Atlantic > Treaty Council meeting there. Dulles earlier had asked Richards ■ to interrupt his Middle East misI sion and fly to Bonn. Hint At Possibility . Os Perjury Charges Trace Profitable Information Leaks WASHINGTON (UP)-Senate investigators, tracing profitable teaks of secret information from the Civil Aeronautics Board, called for testimony today from a prominent Boston broker and a high CAB official. They also hinted at a possible perjury charge because of conflicting stories of two witnesses. The broker, Forester A. Clark, was summoned as a witness before the Senate Investigating Subcommittee, which wants to know who leaked information last Aug. 3 that the CAB had awarded the lucrative New York-Miami route to Northeast Airlines. It also wants to know who made stock market killings on the information. The possibility of perjury arose at Wednesday's opening hearing. Robert W. Oliver, member «Fa Washington law firm that handled Delta’s case, said he meant to buy shares of Northwest Airlines stock In an order placed the day after the CAB ruling. R. H. Foster, who handled the stock purchase, testified that Ollper ordered 400 shares of Northeast—not Northwest—stock. Called back to the stand, Oliver stuck to his version. Sen. Hen y M. Jackson (D-Wash.), acting chairand perjury might be involved. Monthly Dinner Os Retailers Tuesday ‘ The monthly dinner meeting of . the retail division of the Decatur . Chamber of Commerce will be . held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the [ Youth and Community Center. Reservations are to be made at ; the C. of C. office,no later than i Monday morning. INDIANA WEATHER Partly cloudy and continued cool tonight and Friday. Low tonight 38-45 north, 46-54 south. High Friday low 60s extreme north to low 70s south. Sunset 7:39 p. m„ sunrise Friday 5:44 a. in.

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Probe By Grand Jury Is Near To End Today Committee Os U. S. Senate To Conduct Hearing In Scandal INDIANAPOLIS (UP)-Marion | County’s grand jury probe of the Indiana highway scandal neared an end today as a U.S. Sefiate committee announced it will hold hearings on the situation. A 10-day inquiry in the Hoosier capital on Indianapolis angles of the scandal was expected to be completed before sundown. In Washington, Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn) announced his Senate Public Roads Subcommittee would conduct hearings on the situation as a follow-up to a two-week inquiry by two committee staff members in Indianapolis. Gore said the subcommittee voted unanimously this morning to hold hearings in Washington. There was no indication whether they will be secret or public. In Indianapolis, the grand jury called two deputy prosecutors who had done legal research on possible crimes for which the jury can indict in the highway case. .ZTHter’ were James Colvin and Leroy New. The jury scneduled its fourth day of hearing witnesses behind closed doors, many of them persons connected with the State Highway Department during a 1954-56 period when lush middleman profits were made on deals tor the purchase of land for right-of-way for a Madison Ave. expressway. Prosecutor John G, Tinder said the jury may report today. He quoted two of six jurors as saying they are ready to report without hearing any additional witnesses. “We’ve come up," said Tinder, “with' a lot more evidence than we hoped to,” Among witnesses slated to be heard this morning was Deane E. Walker, formerly of Plymouth, who was Democratic member of the three-man highway commission in the administration of former Gov. George N. Craig. Also on tap were 18-year-lod Rosemary Acker and her brothers Joseph, 21, and Harold, 20. They are the children of Mrs. John Acker, who received SI,OOO for a back lot on Madison Ave., a lot which Highway Chairman John Peters says was not needed for the expressway. Nevertheless, that lot and a neighboring one which brought $2,500 to the owners were sold to the state for $25,800. Tinder also called back Russel Freeman, a state right-of-way buyer when Virgil W. (Red) Smith of Milan was highway chairman and Nile Teverbaugh of Monroe City chief of the right-of-way division. Freeman testified last week but Tinder said the jury wanted to talk with him again. The Acker children indicated (CnatißMM Five) Monday Deadline For Spring Taxes Reminder Issued Waldo Neal, county treasurer, today issued a reminder to all taxpayers that Monday, May 6, is the final day for paying the spring installment of taxes. Persons who fail to pay their taxes on or before that date will be assessed delinquency penalties. For the benefit of last-minute taxpayers, the offices of the treasurer, county auditor and county assessor will remain open Saturday until 4 p.m., instead of closing at the regular time of noon. County auditor Ed Jaberg has also announced that May « is the deadline for filing mortgage exemptions. He has urged that all persons who are eligible to receive the exemptions, visit his office immediately. Failure to take care of th matter by May 6 will result in the loss of the exemption.